A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.